Combining Multiply and Screen

Over the next few exercises, we are going to immerse ourselves in the world of…blend modes inside of Illustrator. I have gone ahead and saved my progress as…Opposing gradients.ai, so called because we have opposing gradient opacity…masks assigned to the piano and bench layers here.…I am going to go ahead and zoom in on Sammy's face and recall that we are not…really seeing the imported image at its full resolution here, so don't worry…about some of the choppy transitions. I'm going to zoom in until I can get a…good look at his eyes, and then I'm going to turn on this sublayer right here…inside the Layers palette, the eyes sublayer, in order to add both the makeup…and the highlights inside of the eyes. Both of which by the way, need to…interact with the underlying imported image.…

I will go ahead and twirl open the eye sublayer there and notice these two…Paths right here called Compound Path. They represent the sort of brownish…makeup paths. And what we are seeing is if I click on either one of them, you…

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7/9/2009

Knowing the fundamentals of drawing and reshaping paths is only part of the story. In Illustrator CS4 One-on-One: Advanced, the second of the popular One-on-One series, computer graphics expert Deke McClelland covers some of Illustrator's most powerful and least understood features. He shows how to merge simple shapes to create complex ones with the Pathfinder palette, as well as align paths to create schematic illustrations. Deke explains how to paint fluid, multicolor fills with blends, and the new and improved gradient tool. He explores seamlessly repeating tile patterns, blobs and brushes, and imported images. He also dives into one of the deepest features in all of Illustrator, transparency. Exercise files accompany the tutorial.